AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

GCSTRALIAN <fc N.Z. OAH'.q ASSOCIATION] AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SYDNEY, Aug 13. The New Zealand footballers sailed for home by the Ulimaroa. The Censure Debate is proceeding. A Durban bullock brought £Bl at the Orange sales, smashing all records. The deadweight is estimated at 1700 pounds. The Prince’s mail, expected by the Carkunda, will be brought by aeroplane from Adelaide to catch the Renown on August 19th. The Prince is concluding his country holiday and returning to Sydney on Saturday. The annual report of the Australian Jockey Club discloses prizes amounting j to £IOO,OOO. The totalisator receipts j were over a million. The Chib’s profits were £35,000. MELBOURNE, Aug 13. Hides are firm, and prices on a par with last week’s rates. On arrival from New Zealand, tho Northumberland was quarantined. Eight persons are suffering from influenza. m (Botffefl —wwg wkt tons of coal are coming from Newcastle to Victoria on Thursday to relieve- the . shortage. ,

It is expected the Federal Parliamentary party comprising four Ministerialists, four Labour and two country members. leave on the 24th of August on a visit to the Pacific Islands. Government have appointed Committee including newspaper managers with practical knowledge, to test a hulk parcel of Australian timbers for paper making. ‘ The Acting-Consul General for Japan gives through the press an indignant official denial to the rumours that Japan is fortifying Pacific Islands, south of the Equator. He says the rumour is ridiculous and suggests it represents the manufacture of groundless prejudice against Japan for the purpose of making trouble between Japan and Britain, or Japan and Australia by interested parties. Isaac Cohen, representative of the Zionist Mission, raising funds for the settlement of Jews in Palestine, is now touring the Commonwealth. He leaves for New Zealand on the 20th. He has already raised over £30,000 in Australia.